125 Children’s Books That Teach Positive Character Traits

Books for kids are powerful tools in helping our kids learn and grow. From learning to live with love, kindness, and gratitude, there are some amazing children’s books about character traits.

We have the best of the best books on each positive character trait to read with your kids. AND, you can even download the printable list to take with you to the library.

Best Building Character Books for Kids

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Great care went into preparing this huge list for you. In fact, over a year was spent reading every book on this list plus countless more that didn’t make the list.

NOTE: For each character trait, we have listed our favorite books to read. You can learn more about each book by visiting each category link where we share a little about each book or you can click on the book link that will take you to Amazon reviews.

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About Jodie Rodriguez

Jodie Rodriguez is a mom of two young boys and an early childhood/elementary educator with over 20 years of experience. Jodie's passion is helping parents, teachers, librarians and anyone else interested in nurturing and reaching ALL of our youngest growing readers.

What an awesome list. while they seem like simple and obvious lessons, the more examples of kindness that we can provide our children the better. THis month I have been focusing on social lessons for my kiddos and I have to give a shout out to Michael Dotsikas, his new benjamin Birdie series is so enchanting and educational. My kiddos and i both loved it. I found it on amazon but I learned more about the author here: http://www.michaeldotsikas.com